Saturday, November 30, 2013

A great weekend for some - non Thanksgiving
exercise and activities. Continue to get the garden
put to bed or at least those parts not still growing.
Cabbage doing good, but chard got hit hard with
cold weather. Outside warm season plants-they
have been frozen and are gone.

If you have maple trees, finish the last composting or
mulching of the leaves. (Remove the leaves from
the house gutters.) We have a LOT of leaves this
year.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Try to incorporate some of the marvelous bounty
of the past years produce in the holiday meals.

It is a time to be thankful for living in a great
country that provides us with untold opportunity
and bounty.

After traveling to many foreign countries, be
thankful for living in a free country, were we
have the opportunity to elect our officials.

To live in a country where most people are
pretty well off; not as in other countries that people make
$20-100 per month and where doubling their income
can be accomplished by teaching people how to prune,
how to sort fruit, and how to direct market produce.

Friday, November 15, 2013

There are a LOT of leaves still falling from the
trees, especially maple, oak and birch trees. The
maples are covered with the "whirly bird seeds"
which is often an indication of a colder winter.

Rake, mow, compost the leaves. They are great
for the garden, for putting into the flower bed, for
placing around colder sensitive blueberry bushes
with shallow roots.

It looks like we will behaving a nice, LONGGGGGGGG
fall, winter period, as the fall started back in mid
September and the cooler weather usually lasts until
after March or mid April. That could be as long as
6-7 months.

What we really need is .......................a lot of rain.
Yes rain and 15 foot of snow in the mountains. The
last three years have been really down on moisture
so a good, wet-snowy year would do wonders for
the ground water which looks to be down a lot this year.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

We need the rain to fill up the depleted groundwater,
actually around 60-100 inches would do the trick;
but it makes yard, garden and farm work tough.

Pruning has started.. In January thru May there
will be about 35 opportunities to take a good class
on pruning to learn the principles to prune most
anything, but we spend the most time on tree fruits.

Anyone wanting to the Master Gardner class, register
ASAP as the intro class is the first week of December
and the regular class starts the second week of
January and goes for around 10 weeks.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

With the cold weather coming upon us, take the
time to do a little prep for the winter time. Some
call it the 72 hour pack. A pack that contains food,
water and shelter that will help you remain dry and
fed for at least 72 hours.

Next, have a storage of water, food, shelter, heat
that can sustain you for a week, a month or even
a year. The way things are going, having a back
up food and water supply may be a necessity.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Chestnuts are falling. Go to the internet to ID
which chestnut your might have. We typically
have two, horse chestnut or American chestnut.
The horse chestnut is not good good to eat.
The American chestnut is the one that is used to
roast for the holidays.

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